symbiont
noun
sym·bi·ont
ˈsim-bē-ˌänt 
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Things seemed a touch downcast over at the FT’s Moral Money section, a generally reliable cheerleader for ESG (environmental, social, and governance investing) and its symbiont, stakeholder capitalism, on July 14.
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Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 25 July 2023
The extreme heat has triggered coral bleaching, where stressed corals expel their colorful algae symbionts, leaving them pale and vulnerable.
—NBC News, 16 July 2023
The work provides a speculative scenario that demonstrates how an autonomous A.I. system follows its own strategies for colonizing the architectural space and as an extension to become a human symbiont.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2022
So rather than teaming up with a symbiont, why not cut out the middle-man and take its chloroplasts for yourself?
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2012
The spirochete lives permanently as a symbiont in the patient.
—Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2011
When Shori takes on another male symbiont, Wright punches a hole in the wall.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
Jenkins suspected that this stabilizing mechanism might involve the organisms’ RNA because his colleagues had noticed many regions of strong similarity between host and symbiont transcripts floating around in the cytoplasm.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
Simon says the cicada is trapped in a 17-year cycle that has forced it to make unusual adaptations like living with this symbiont.
—Eric Niiler, Wired, 21 May 2021
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Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 25 July 2023
The extreme heat has triggered coral bleaching, where stressed corals expel their colorful algae symbionts, leaving them pale and vulnerable.
—NBC News, 16 July 2023
The work provides a speculative scenario that demonstrates how an autonomous A.I. system follows its own strategies for colonizing the architectural space and as an extension to become a human symbiont.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2022
So rather than teaming up with a symbiont, why not cut out the middle-man and take its chloroplasts for yourself?
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2012
The spirochete lives permanently as a symbiont in the patient.
—Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2011
When Shori takes on another male symbiont, Wright punches a hole in the wall.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
Jenkins suspected that this stabilizing mechanism might involve the organisms’ RNA because his colleagues had noticed many regions of strong similarity between host and symbiont transcripts floating around in the cytoplasm.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
Simon says the cicada is trapped in a 17-year cycle that has forced it to make unusual adaptations like living with this symbiont.
—Eric Niiler, Wired, 21 May 2021
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symbiont
noun
sym·bi·ont
ˈsim-ˌbī-ˌänt
-bē-
: an individual living in symbiosis
especially
: the smaller member of a symbiotic pair
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